Speakers
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Blake Meyers, PhD
Member, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Professor, Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri
Marylyn D. Ritchie, PhD
Faculty Pending, Department of Genetics
Director, Center for Translational Bioinformatics, Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI)
Associate Director for Bioinformatics, Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI)
Associate Director, Center for Precision Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
SPEAKERS
Susan Abdel-Rahman, PharmD
Professor of Pediatrics,
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Chief of the Section of Therapeutic Innovation,
Children’s Mercy in Kansas City
Denise Baker, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychological Science
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Bimal Balakrishnan, PhD
Associate Professor, Architectural Studies
University of Missouri
Julie Banderas, PharmD
Professor, Interim Chair Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
University of Missouri Kansas City
Dhundy Kiran Bastola
Associate Professor, Bioinformatics
School of Interdisciplinary Informatics
College of Information Science and Technology
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Sherwin Chan, MD PhD
Pediatric Radiologist, Vice Chair of Research, Department of Radiology
Children’s Mercy
Jianlin Cheng, PhD
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
University of Missouri
Warren A. Cheung, PhD
Senior Computational Biologist, Genome Center
Children’s Mercy
Sharlee Climer, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Missouri – St. Louis
Juan Cui, PhD
Assistant Professor
Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics (SBBI) Laboratory
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL)
Plamen Doynov, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Physics and Astronomy Department
University of Missouri Kansas City
Christine Elsik, PhD
Associate Professor
Divisions of Animal and Plant Sciences
University of Missouri
Noah Fahlgren, PhD
Director, Bioinformatics Core Facility
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Randi Foraker, PhD MA FAHA
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine Institute for Informatics Washington University
Walter Gassmann, PhD
Professor, Division of Plant Sciences
Interim Director, Bond Life Sciences Center
Michael Goldwasser, PhD
Chairman, Department of Computer Science
Saint Louis University
Timothy Haithcoat
Deputy Director, Center for Geospatial Intelligence
Sr. Geospatial Information Research Specialist
University of Missouri
Trupti Joshi, MBBS, ADB, MS, PhD
Director of Translational Bioinformatics, School of Medicine – Medical Research Office
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Management and Informatics
Core Faculty MU Informatics Institute, Computer Science and Interdisciplinary Plant Group
University of Missouri
Devin Koestler, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
University of Kansas Medical Center
Zhu Li, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
University of Missouri – Kansas City
Jon Marsh, PhD
Senior Scientist
Institute for Informatics (I2)/Department of Pathology & Immunology
Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine
Ashiq Masood, MD
Co-Director of Center for Precision
Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Missouri Kansas City
K. Palaniappan
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Missouri
Jerry Parker, PhD
Interim Senior Associate Dean for Research
Associate Dean for Research
Co-Director, MU institution for Clinical and Translational Science
Philip Payne, PhD, FACMI
Robert J. Terry Professor and Founding Director of the Institute for Informatics
Professor of General Medical Sciences, School of Medicine
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Praveen Rao, PhD
Associate Professor
Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
School of Computing and Engineering
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Chi-Ren Shyu, PhD
Shumaker Endowed Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Missouri
Jeffrey A. Thompson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
University of Kansas Medical Center
Shui Ye, MD, PhD
Chairman & Professor, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics
William R. Brown/Missouri Endowed Chair in Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine
University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine